Quotes from Marion Chesney

I am afraid the English have always loathed their soldiers except in times of peril

Well, I am sorry. I did not expect her to take me seriously." "A rich, handsome, marriageable man is always taken seriously.

The audience settled back, prepared to be culturally bored and to enjoy it, for everyone knew that culture, like medicine, must be really nasty or it was not culture.

The most damnable thing had happened," he said suddenly in his light husky voice without looking at her. "I have fallen in love with you and I don't know what to do about it.

For Maria had given up praying a long time ago so that God would not know where she was.

his conscience was at war with all his aristocratic upbringing. Gentlemen never apologized.

When you have praised my leg so beautifully? I can assure you that no female of my acquaintance has ever appreciated my poor leg so much before. When I die, I shall have it embalmed and sent to you.

The writer harked back to Lord Byron's maiden speech in the House three years before: "I have been in some of the most oppressed provinces in Turkey, but never, under the most despotic of infidel Governments, did I behold such squalid wretchedness as I have seen since my return in the very heart of a Christian country." Mrs.

The Regency was an age of hard gambling, and therefore it was more important than ever to keep the family finances afloat by marrying well.

Like most womanisers, he affected to like women, and yet he despised and hated them all. And

If one has never been in love before, then it is difficult to recognize the beast when it comes along.

endured—how I endured!—for one day I knew her services would no longer be required and I would make my come-out and at least I would have a brief time when I could meet girls of my own age. But Miss Stamp was raised to the rank of companion and still had the schooling

The rain it raineth on the just       And also on the unjust fella;       But chiefly on the just, because       The unjust steals the just's umbrella. —Charles, Baron Bowen

You know what the aristocracy is like. They turn their children over to the care of nurses and governesses from the day they are born and have little to do with them after that.

Her feet hurt, for Lady Clarendon had bought her daughter shoes too small for her in an attempt to make her large feet look smaller.

It is sometimes hard to recognized real love. So much nonsense it talk about love and so much nonsense is written about it that it is sometimes hard to recognize the real thing.

His voice became louder as he

maid, then chambermaid, then housemaid, then chief housemaid

Don't be a fool!" snapped the viscount. "When did sheltering from the rain with a gentleman count as compromising a lady's honour?" "Yes, indeed," said the squire in amazement. "In faith, sir, you should be thanking Fitzpatrick here for having minded your daughter instead of trying to force him to marry the girl.

being where a waist should be instead of up under the armpits as present fashion decreed.

Because of the thinness of fashionable gowns, it was estimated that at least eighteen thousand women dropped dead of cold during the English winters.

there is nothing so bad as a reformed anything, be it gambler, drunkard, or lecher. They are aye harder on folks wi' their vices than someone without them would be." Sir

Do you know, Carter, that I can actually write my      name in the dust on the table? Faith, Mum, that's more than I can do. Sure,      there's nothing like education, after all. —Punch

When he had died, the duchess had prayed nightly to God to send her down a personality, for she had become unused to thinking any individual thought or taking any individual action.